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Golden Years: Bite Yer Legs and Chopper, a bloodied Butcher and the defender they called Psycho... Sportsmail's nostalgic series focuses this week on some of the game's hard men
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Sportsmail's nostalgic picture series Golden Years focuses on football's glorious past, and this week we look closely at an aspect of the game that seems almost consigned to history.
The nicknames 'Bites Yer Legs', 'Chopper' and 'Psycho' can only mean one thing - we're looking at that classic football breed, the 'hard man'.
There are a host of legendary names from football's past here, with our photographs spanning the decades.
Please note, this is not a comprehensive feature looking at every 'hard man' to have played the game, far from it, but a selection of British players that we hope that contains at least one or two of your favourites.
Feel free to leave a comment at the bottom of this article, and we'll return next Wednesday with more football nostalgia.